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Brexit
News

Another global company to quit Britain for Europe because of Brexit

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
1 November, 2025 (2 weeks ago)

The WTTC joins a growing list of businesses that have shifted operations from the UK to the EU since the 2016 referendum.

Brexit and EU

Brexit will harm UK economy ‘for the foreseeable future’, says Bank of England chief

Basit Mahmood
20 October, 2025 (3 weeks ago)

‘The answer is that for the foreseeable future it is negative.’

Chancellor Rachel Reeves with the budget briefcase
Opinion

Rachel Reeves’ budget must reduce inequalities and increase spending capacity of the masses

Prem Sikka
17 October, 2025 (4 weeks ago)

This is how to secure sustained economic growth

Rachel Reeves delivering her spending review this afternoon

Government acknowledges ‘severe’ economic impact of Brexit

Basit Mahmood
15 October, 2025 (4 weeks ago)

Reeves said Brexit is partly to blame for the estimated £50bn blackhole in the economy that she is likely going to have to address at her autumn budget.

Canary Wharf

If the government wants economic growth it must bring essential industries into public ownership

Prem Sikka
26 September, 2025

Successive governments clobber households and small businesses by hiking interest rates to manage inflation, but don’t inconvenience corporations.

A side on photo of Rachel Reeves outside Number 11 Downing Street
Opinion

How successive governments have created a new rentier economy

Prem Sikka
5 September, 2025

Governments appease corporations and the super-rich by following the old policies which benefit a few. 

Tory MP

Tory MP in car crash interview as he tries to attack Labour on economy

Basit Mahmood
14 August, 2025

It backfired…

A side on photo of Rachel Reeves outside Number 11 Downing Street
Opinion

Rachel Reeves’ Mansion House speech offered nothing for most people

Prem Sikka
17 July, 2025

‘The state needs to be hands-on, and not leave it all to the pirates of City of London’

Drax power station
Opinion

Corporate vs human welfare: The story of Drax

Prem Sikka
27 June, 2025

There is no means-testing for corporate welfare payments.

A photo of Liz Kendall, the Department for Work and Pensions secretary making a statement in Parliament on the WASPI women
Opinion

Kim Johnson MP: The government’s ‘concessions’ on disability benefit cuts ‘do not go anywhere near far enough’

Kim Johnson
27 June, 2025

‘They would create a two-tier benefits system where people would not be eligible for support because they became sick or disabled at a later date.’

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